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State: Gujarat
Constituency: Jamnagar
Total Votes Polled: 324518
Winner: BJP Koradia Chandreshbhai Valjibhai 156540
Runner Up: INC Ahir Bhikhubhai Varotaria 134793
Margin: 21747 (6.89%)

Urmilaben Patel, former chief minister Chimanbhai Patel's wife, bit the dust in 1991 at the hands of the sitting MP, the BJP's K C K Valjibhai Patel. Patel, in fact, has won this constituency three times in a row, starting 1989, when he defeated the Congress's three-time MP D P Jadeja.

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